Dmitri Medvedev

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 18, 2013

Kremlin-linked Web site leaks video clip of angry Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin threatening to dismiss top officials, fueling speculation that Prime Min Dmitri A Medvedev and members of his cabinet are in danger of being fired. MORE

Feb. 8, 2013

Officials in Russia are considering whether to go back to using daylight savings time when winter Olympics are held in Sochi in 2014, thus bringing Russian time closer to rest of Europe and adding television viewership and profitability of showing games in prime time; decision could affect legacy of former Pres Dmitri A Medvedev, who decided in 2011 that Russia should abandon daylight savings time. MORE

Oct. 17, 2012

Prime Min Dmitri A Medvedev voices support for proposed ban on public smoking by 2015 in Russia, where close to a third of population smokes; bid appears to be aimed at reclaiming some political relevance at time when many of the initiatives he championed during his tenure as president have been rolled back under Vladimir V Putin. MORE

Oct. 2, 2012

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg meets with Russian Prime Min Dmitri A Medvedev in Moscow; Russia is an important test case for the balancing act Facebook is undertaking in countries that have traditionally heavily regulated, if not censored, their media. MORE

Sep. 21, 2012

Memo from Moscow; Russian President Vladimir V Putin has reversed many of former President Dmitri A Medvedev's initiatives, indicating that contrary to popular belief, Medvedev acted independently and sometimes even against Putin's wishes. MORE

Sep. 13, 2012

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri A Medvedev says that further incarceration of the three women in the group Pussy Riot, punk rockers jailed for a profane stunt in Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral, would be unproductive; says that while he does not approve of their performance, women should be released rather than serve out their two-year sentences. MORE

May. 19, 2012

Russian Prime Min Dmitri A Medvedev obliquely mentions nuclear weapons while referring to the United States, prompting a sell-off in the Russia's stock market; comment rattles traders who are increasingly nervous about worsening relations with the West. MORE

May. 9, 2012

Russian Parliament, amid some dissent, confirms former Pres Dmitri A Medvedev as prime minister, completing a long-planned transition; one-third of Russia's parliament votes against Medvedev's accession, signaling his weakened political status. MORE

May. 4, 2012

Pres Dmitri A Medvedev of Russia is fighting to remain politically relevant as he prepares to cede the presidency to Prime Min Vladimir V Putin. MORE

Apr. 27, 2012

Pres Dmitri A Medvedev of Russia, in two-hour interview on Russian television unusual for its unscripted live format, admits disappointment over failure to achieve some of the goals of his four-year presidency, but also defends his record in office. MORE

Apr. 25, 2012

Russian Prime Min Vladimir V Putin steps down as chairman of the ruling United Russia party, a post he has held since 2008, handing over control to his protege, Pres Dmitri A Medvedev. MORE

Apr. 20, 2012

Drastic spike in teenage suicides throughout Russia has become so pronounced that Pres Dmitri A Medvedev warns news media outlets that too much publicity surrounding the deaths might be contributing to a copycat effect. MORE

Mar. 28, 2012

Republicans leap on opportunity to criticize Pres Obama's foreign policy after he is caught on microphone assuring Russian Pres Dmitri A Medvedev that the US will address concerns about an American missile defense system after the November election; Medvedev in turn criticizes Republican presidential candidates for being dangerously out of touch with the cooperative realities of modern diplomacy. MORE

Mar. 27, 2012

Pres Obama is caught by a live microphone as he tells Russia's Pres Dmitri A Medvedev that he would have 'more flexibility' to negotiate on the delicate issue of missile defense after the November presidential election, which Obama apparently feels confident he will win. MORE

Mar. 21, 2012

Pres Dmitri A Medvedev tells top Russian military officials that they must be prepared to beat the United States' missile defense system at all phases of its development, even as talks continue on modifying the system to assuage Russian concerns. MORE

Mar. 6, 2012

Russian Pres Dmitri A Medvedev orders Russia's prosecutor general to verify the legality of the conviction of Mikhail B Khodorkovsky, former billionaire whose imprisonment has been widely condemned as politically motivated; move comes a day after an election that returns Prime Min Vladimir V Putin to the presidency. MORE

Feb. 1, 2012

Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column, composed as a memo to Russian Prime Min Vladimir Putin and Pres Dmitri Medvedev, highlights the similarities between the political eruptions in Russia and those of the Arab Spring; argues Putin's only hope is to set up a coalition government that includes the political opposition. MORE

Dec. 29, 2011

Russian Pres Dmitri A Medvedev has responded to street protests in Moscow with proposals for political reform, but his recent personnel appointments have gone to former officers of the KGB and long-serving loyalists of his mentor Prime Min Vladimir V Putin. MORE

Dec. 23, 2011

Russian Pres Dmitri A Medvedev outlines a long-awaited agenda for political change in his last state of the nation speech before leaving office; his proposals, if carried out, would be a step toward dismantling the highly centralized government built over 10 years by Vladimir Putin, but they come too late to apply to the two momentous election cycles, the parliamentary elections held at the beginning of December that precipitated unrest and presidential contest that will determine the makeup of the government for the next five years. MORE

Dec. 18, 2011

Russia's President Dmitri A Medvedev says anti-Kremlin street protests over parliamentary elections reflect public discontent, and acknowledges that country's political system needs reform. MORE

Oct. 28, 2011

Former Moscow Mayor Yuri M Luzhkov has delivered series of verbal broadsides at high-ranking officials in Russia's governing United Russia party, apparently in an effort to echo public frustrations with Russia's ruling elite and to present himself as a political martyr; Luzhkov was abruptly dismissed from his position by Pres Dmitri A Medvedev in 2010. MORE

Oct. 22, 2011

Russian journalism students use Twitter to spread news that abundance of applause for Pres Dmitri A Medvedev in packed lecture hall at Moscow State University is a manipulation; episode underlines the challenge social media pose to Russian authorities in nation where stage-managed events are a mainstay of politics. MORE

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